The Sun. — London, England, 1818-02-18 00:00:00

THE COLONIES. TIVIBER DUNES. As this interesting- question is not filially dis posed of, aml great anxiety is felt fro”i the un certainly which prevails respecting it,"we are in duced to direct the attention of our Readers to the follo% .I(!titirtiiiie Memorial from the Mer chants at Montreal upon this question:— TO THE NICHT IioNOURABLE THE LORDS OF THE CoMMITTP:P. 1.1: PIS MAJESTY•S PEIVY COUNCIL FOR TEAM'. AND PLANTATION, &C. &c. &C. The Memorial of the Merchays aad Others ca goged and concerned in the Timber Trade, le sidiag in the District of Montreal, in the Pro oince () . f Lower Canada, SiaEwETt4,—Thar your Memorialists hav;.og learnt that it has been in the contemplation of his :Majesty's Government to Cause a Poty to be im posed on Timber impotted into Great Britain front his Majesty's Nord] American Colonies, are urged, by cousiderrion nt public and privioe in terest, to represent to your Lordships the extreme impolicy of such a measme, and the injurious consequences which would result front its adoption. Linder the protection which his Majesty's Go vernment has affordt.d, these some years past, to the importation of timher from the British Colo nies, this province has been -enabled to engage extensively in this branch of commerce, and con -iii-rabk capital has been employed in forming • tablislinuts for c4rrying it on suceesst'illy. i'slutuaLolvantsges have hencc ari sen to the Colo ny ail(! the :`,liiiher Country. In the former, this trade has fatilitatcd the cle.tring and sefriement of the waste lauds, has given employno la -to a mill titiule of itylividuals, and augmenteiii. the wealth and resources of the Colony. To the latter it afforded the incalculable advan tage of securing supplies of Timber for naval put poses, from its oe.-n dommions. tit a (o ne wh en the hostility of the Northern Powers of Europe had interdicted any supplies from them ; and has contributed to promote the national strength am! prosperity, by furnishing extensive . :.employment .for British Slopping, and by increasing, to a great amount, the Importation of thitish Manufactures. The influence of this trade is indeed telt in all the br,Anches of Colonial Commerce ; and anv measure calculated to diminish the Exportitiion of Timber front Coe Colonies, would, in its indirect consequences, affect the other branches also. Ainoio4 these, the Fisheries would evidently sus tain great ;;' . logy front such a measure. At present the importation of Salt for the use ol the Fisheries is much faeilitio . ed by the means of obtaining - a eturn cariro of Timber ; and the sante advantage gives occasion to the importation of various other bllky articles, the expense of the freight of which could not otherwise be borne. By any injury done to the-Timber Trade, therefore, that of tl:e Fisheries would be grcioly itnuaired, and the Ex poitation from the Mother Country much dimi- Dished. The great and important benefits derived from this '!'ride to the Colony and the Mother Coun try. your Memorialists beg leave to represent, most certainly cease with the Trade itself, if the tn-asure allint e d to should he adopted. Any Doty imposed en Timber front the Colonies would add so much to the existing disci ntagrs under which the Trade is notvcarrird on, as to he absolutely destructive of it. Since the establishment of peace, and the sources of supply itt Europe have bLen again operied, it has been barely practicable, not Wit nstandiroz rite extremely low rate of freight, to carry on the Trade tvithout 10:`5, dilli it could centaiidy not exist under any new cause of discuto. anlnent. In the anticipated destruction of this Trade from the Measure in question, your Memorialists have reason to deprecate great immediate injury to themselves and their fellow subjects. Many of thern."relying on the continuance of a liberal fro. lice on the part of his Majesty's Government, towards the Colonies, have invested their capital in estalAishments for carryi►►g on the T►rther Trade, which derive their value from this Trade only ; and without it, they, as well tts numerous classes of individuals employed in :he labour re quired by this Trade, will he deprived of the means of subsistence'on which they had a right to calculate. The other classes' of society, though not itr►mediately affected by this measure, would feel its infbtence in the diminished trade and re sources of the country, on which all more or less tlel►eitd. While your Memorialists have such well-ground ed cause for alarm from the proposed measure, they nevertheless persuade themselves that, in.the justice and liberality of his Majesty's Govern ment, they will find sufficient protection to pre vent its adoptiOn. .After having exerted them selves successfully in defence of his Majesty's Go verninvnt, dining the late American war, it would iud..ed afford matter for painful reflection, if the resources of the country sltonk he crippled, and numerous classes of its inhabitants (of which your Memorialists make part), ruined by a measure originating With that Government, and altogether at variance with the just and liberal,policy which it has lung pursued. It has been a part of this policy, the expediency Of which past events has confitme-d, nor Only to abstain from raising a reve nue on the Trade of . the Colonies, but to roster nod ptotnnte their growth-and atlvancement, by tulotitting the importation' from them of articles o f their own produce,,:opou better terms than like articles received froisforeign nations ; a pre ference the more just,. ,as it has served to com pensate, in some degree, for the disadvantages produced by an exch4iou of the colonies from ail Foreign Trade. • ;,, in no bran( It of ibe Colonial Trade is it more expedient that this fostering protection should be sti ,, rthd, 111: in that of the Timber exported from" the C 9 ,louies ; it is under this protection on+y that it, has received existence, and has be- some of iv . :m i d importance ; and without this seippott, it must cease to exist, to the great injury Coldries F.nd of the Mother Country. Memori4lists, reposing'She fullest . con - tiroce in the heneticeot 114e1100118 of Ens Aiojesty's Government, pray that the premises may receive your Lot dships' favourable consideratio►t. A►►d al in duty hot►nd they will ever pray, &c. &c. &c. Montreal, Nov. 20, tBl7. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Perfurmot Last Night. THEATRE RREAL, Di rt Y-LA •!E.—(Bt h time), The Rrifle of Ahping : ; Zulieha, Mrs. Marlyn. After Itosina. Tim EATEE RovA CovENT-Gmtpr.N.--Tlte Point of lionnnr : Chevalier It St. Fralte, Mr. Young.; Bertha, Hiss Aft-tr which, he Illustrious Traveller. To which was added, Husbands and Wives. MAILS. Anrityr - 13-1 Dublin. Due. —3 Waterf , ,rd, 1 Guern:ey and Jersey, 2 Gottenburgh, Lishou, 1 Hurutourgh. PRICE () Tills DAY AT r• Bank Stock. .?kJ 239-1 , 3 per Cent. 3041 per Cent. Cons 793. so! 4 4 per Cents g r ini 5 per Cent. N. Ann... 10644 i Bank L. Ann.... 201 15-16ths E. LI STOCKS F.INF: lit I,CH. India 80n...k. crs 995. p r . ()Id Annuities BO4 New ditto Exch. Bills 2d... IS,. 2.15. pr. Ditto, 225. 275. Vis. pr. f”. Account SOS. (TON, Stock-11rolier, !ornhill, and Lornsard street. f-TrOTT WATER AT LONDON BRUIGE To -NIORROW. Moriliti4, 45 minutes after 12. J Evening, 10 minutes after I. THE tz4tTN. SOLE: , I FA t.iUAI .AUDEAT ii,()N()ON T , JVEfiNEST , El I1?U .4 Ri" IS, ISIS. ‘Ve received this morning the Paris Papers of Sunday last. They do not contain a word as to the discovery of the Assassin %rho fired at the Doke of WELLINGTON, nor is the least mention made whether the doe said to have been obtained had been followed up with any or tvhat success. It is ~ingular also, that im only one of the Joni-- Lodi is the name of the Duke of WELLINGTON even inenflOned. 'file following are extracts CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, FEB. 14. `r A Petition from French Propri e t ors o f Na ! tional Property in Spain, which had been placed under seqUestration by the Government of Fer- VII. claiming the execution of the Ist ad ditional article of the Treaty of Peace between France and Spain, of the 20th July, 1814, was, after some discussion, ordered to be referred to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. `"Fhe Count Corvetto, the Minigter of Finance, presented the Projet of Law respecting the Cus toms Duties referred to in the Budget. " The Rang de St. Crieg developed the ob jects of the Proj-t. " The Projet was ordered to be prin!ed, and the discnssion of it to commence in the Bureaus on Thursday next. Dupont elc l'Eure) made the following proposition That the King he humbly prayed to present a Projet of Law for the purpose of sectoring the constitutional exercise of the Liberty of the Press, of defining with certainty the responsibility of authors and printers, of determining the charac ters of Offences 'arising from --printed works after their publication, and of establishing trial by-Jury, with.regard to offences of the Press.' " The proposition will he developed in one of the next Secret Committees. " Adjourned, without appointing a day for the next public:sitting. PARIS i FEB. 15.—Since the event of the 10th the• Duke of Wellington has been daily visited by the King's Ministers, the Ambassadors, and the most distinguished persons in the capital. His Gtace rides out as usual on horsebark.•accom pAnied by one of his-Aides-de-Camp. His Grace yesterday visited the - Doke d'Angoilleme. " The Madrid Gazette confirms the intelligence from Genoa respecting the conduct of the Dey of Algiers towards the Foreign Consuls. The news has been brought to Mahon by several ves sels from Algiers, the passengers on board which all agree as to the circumstances which have been already related. Our Vienna Correspondent In. forms us, that the intelligence has been officially transmitted to the Count de Rossi, the Sardinian Minister at the Austrian Court. " The trial of Maenad') Brtinean, calling him- • self Louis XVII. proceeds day by day at Rouen. " FIVE PER CENTS. "Saturday " MADRID, FEB. 3.—According to the state ments made by.Mahotnet, who has arrived - at Ma hon, and who was the chief of the unsuccess ful insurrection against the Dey of Algiers, and by those who have escaped with him, all that has been stated respecting the forcing the daught - er of the hanker of the English Consulate at Al7;iers, and a French girl, the daughter of the master of the principal inn there, into the Dey's seraglio, and respecting the imprisonment of all persons connected with the English Consulate, is confirmed. " lIAMBUBCH, FEE. 6.—lt is understood here that the contract for a Loan to Prussia, by Messrs. Rothschild and Harandon, has not beets ratified, and that the ratification will nut take place with out some modifications. " HALF., FEE. s.—Yesterday at the sitting of the Grand Courted of the Canton, the Swedish Gnstavus Adolphus Gustayson (ci-de vent Kits; of Sweden), was formally introduced, and received as a citizen of Hale," A Letter from St. 'Mary's, dated Jan. 6, in the New York Commercial Advertiser of the 20th, says, ' Nature has pointed out the Hondas as properly a part of onr dominion, and we should no longer incur the tisk of its bring transftrred to a third Power; we can now occupy it with justice,. and even at a futuce period the tonscquences m a be or a more serious character Om; they possibly ca be under existing circumstances." The Mercantile Advertiser of the 17th Jan. states, " that the Dutch ship April, which recently ar rived at New Castle, on the Delaware, from Am sterdam, with 1,100 passengers, lost upwards of 500 on the passage." Lord FOLKESTON E and Mr. BRouGu.vm, the chief . PATRONS of Discontent, to use the mildest term, last night presented Petitions to the House of Commons from those who had been detained under THE HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION ACT, and pray ing that Ministers should be denied an Act o f Indemnity. Lord CASTLEREAGH effeettlaily answered those Senatorial Patrons of REFORM, and stated that an Act of Indemnity would riot interfere with the ulterior views of the Petitioners. As to the allegations in the Peti! ions, we do not put the least confidence in then►, and considor them as gross exaggerations, if not absolute falsehoods, from► beginning to end, however they may have im posed upon the capacious credulity of Lord FOLKE STONE and Mr. fittouGn Am, whose conviction is easily excited in all matters adverse to Govern ment. As to an ACT of INDEMNITY to Ministers for having SAVED the CouNTRY from insurrec tions, that, it not timely and vigorously opposed, might have ended in the horrors of a Gallic Re volution, and the total subjection of the best political system ever devised by human saga• city, and mature. by the progress of practical ex perience, we conceive that an act of HONOUR and GRATITUDE, instead of INDEMNITY, would more properly express the feelings of the people and the sentiments of all Europe. • • The preservation of H ALTH 811(1 the security o PROPERTY are such important considerations, tha we regret our want of room yesterday to notice the Bill presented to Parliament for regulating the practice of SURGERY, and the Petitions presented to the House of Lords on Monday last by Earl FORTESCUE, from the A ttornies and Solicitors of Devon, and those of Westminster and Bristol to the House of Commons, on the same day, by Lord LASCELLES and Mr. Pa oT n E ßoe. Th e Bill respecting th e SunGe oNs , h owev er, we inserted yesterday, and we are glad to find, as they are one of the most useful and valuable bodies of tire Community, that they are so zealous to rid th it profession of all Empirics, and we shall be anxious at all times to give our strenuous support to so laudable and so important art object. Having said so touch ourselves, and basing inserted tinisny valuable cominimications from Correspondents on the subject of CERTLFIC‘TED CONVEYANCERS, we need not add that we shall be equally anxious at all times to pro'Eote their endeavours to clear their profescion also from Ertipirics in TUE LAW, whose presumption and rapacity may otherwise, as we have before observed, bring ruin upon families whose property wholly depends on the frail tenure of Deeds devised by Ci•Mt, founded in Ignorance, and adopted by Credulity. COLCHEF:TER ELECTION.—State Of the Poll, Second DaV ILMIAN HARVEY Arrijority 207 103 104 HOC WILDMAN. The New York Evening Post of the 17th Jan. contains the following statement respecting Mr. COBBETT " PHILADRLNITA, JAN. 16 —Mr. WM.COEBETT s now in this city, He proposes to proceed to Llarrisbnigh,, to petition the Legislature to reload him a sum of money, which he thinks very itnhro• perly exacted from him during the administration of Governor APKEANt." CORN-EXCHANGE, FEB. 18.—We had no fresh Arrivals this morning, and very few Sales made, as buyers appear to he waiting for supplies, con sequently we consider the prices - nominally the same as on Monday. Yesterday the Duke of Yonx transacted .mili tary business with the PRINCE REGENT RE Carl ton-hrmSe. The Earl of LIVERPOOL, Earl BATHURST, and Lord STEWART had audiences of the PRINCE RE GENT at Carlton-house. The Prince of lIESSE HOMBOURG received visits yesterday from the Duke of CUMBERLAND and several distinguished characters. His Serene Highness walked ont to visit the Duke of YORK, and afterwards dined at his new residence for the first time. THE DUKE or CLARRNCE,—We are - extremely concerned to say the Duke of CLARENCE is indis posed. His fist attack was on Sunda?. On Monday Sir HENRY HALPonn was three times iu attendance upon his Royal Highness. Yesterday was the day appointed for the Duke to leave Lon• don for Bushy ; but on account of his continued indisposition the journey was postponed. MUM - I.—The second of those gratifying FA MILY CONCERTS, under the, conduct of Mr. HAWES, which have been so much admired, took place last night at the Adelphi Terrace. l'Ve have not space to dwell on•the merits of the evening.— , Miss GOODALL and Miss CAREW were expected, but were prevented 'by illness from attending ; but MiSS WILLIAMS, and another young Lady, whose name we did not learn, added .much to the vocal department, which was otherwise well supported by BELLAMY, TERRAIL, EVANS, ',FIRTH, and 1-IA?,:EiS • iliis SJIARP displayed her powers very successfully on the Harp; hut the wonder of the night was a Violin Concerto by Miss TREMEARN, whom we have previously noticed. She is but just nine years of age, but her taste, judgment, and execution, might excite the envy of veteran Perforners.of high rank. The Music was well selected, and the whole highly applauded by a nIIntCrOUS and elegant company.- - 1' EXTRAORDINARY STORY. t b 11 in our Paper of Monday last, 91111di . lig "' r ed mysterious event w hi c h i s said to ho ve °ectir. e , in a family of hi g h di st i nc ti o n, we sa ted 3 the port that this evert had been no ticed in ler " Novel of Glenarvon, though disguise.(l circumstances invented by the fair Auth ol ' " re . consequence of thi s re p or t, we have been quested to insert the follot‘ing paragraP b " The Lady alluded to in the above par'gr-Ire is perfectly iftdignant th,t her name shotO I°o been made use o f as b e i ng i n .h e slightest degi connected with a report %%hich has been circulated thro ug h out Loudon,--a rep ort sv trelnely absurd, that it can only have der ived j "I"mentary consequence from the credulity ''.l; loquacity of those who m a d e it, and sP re°di i; It is perhaps n ee dl ess to a dd, t h a t such repo r t s t entirely wit hoot found at i on ; t h a t witne sses +l live who can di s p rove every sy ll a bl e that ha s ": - /0 . advanced ; and that Sir RICHARD Clito r ' was as much disting u i s h e d by a c haracter f° r tegray, honour, and h uman ity, as he was by 4,3 t very superior talents, was utterly incapable nd such an act. It is assuredly m o st unman l y cruel to asperse his memory at such a moroc" lt a charge of this nature; more particularijr ` vbe iv a the cause of his unh a ppy d ea th h as bee n . ire ig ai. c but too w e ll e x pl a i ne d— su fli c i ent i v , as it 113:13. have been presumed, to have satisfied the tiable edge of public curiosity at least'for s°l-- (lays." n We readily insert the foregoing parsg"r b justice to the Lady whose name we hail ill (r-' 41 diced in the article to which it 'refers, IP t may be allowed to observe, that the merit °- popularity of her work rendered it i"'V s6il)l° that her name could be concealed. What Lady says respecting Sir RICHARD CROFT doe; honour to her heart, and we feel too much, reflecting on the dreadlui tcrinination of his life ' to dispute any part of her 'tribu e to his character' intellectual, moral, or professional. With respect - to the story itself, which has been so universally p reva l en t, an d w hi c h the w orlti believed, as Lord Townley says, " as it 41°e !, every thing that feeds its appetite for scandi"P we have heard it contradicted on suc h AuTl l ° llll.l. 4 induces us to consider it wholly as an u nfoun d % fabrication. Indeed, we are as.,ured, from same authority, upon which we are disposed C ott fidently to rely, that it will soon receive s " ch complete refutation, in all its points, as w ill tens e probably p u t an en d to a ll f ur th er r umours 00 subject, except such as may be circo ,t o merell by malevolence and c re di te d b y 104. Still' NEWS. DEAL, FEB. i 7.--The Tottenham convict with the Derby Rioters, arrived yesterday ill the, Downs from Sheerness, and will sail intlecli Bl4l/ for New South Wales. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 17.—Arrived the T1 1011 " 5' and Mary transport from Malta with troops, - I ti is put under quarantine. PENZANCE, FEB. ls.—Came in the Albi ° from Chichester when entering the Bay, an d 1 a the act of hoisting out the boat, a man fell over board and was drowned. HARwtou, FEB. 17.—Came in the Badg e . cutter, Lieut. Msacsa, from a cruise ; oil t its 30th ult. when about 20 l eagues fr Lowesi°,„' picked up a Lond on wh e r r y, w i t h t h e J a ne, o f Greenwich, JOHN WATERS," painted on her Ste rn ' supposed to belong to a galliot then in sight, b° l ' . ' tom upwards. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 16.—The Mary, PRITCIIAS"' from Charlesron to japtiaica, was spoken with 1 1 '!= 20th December, out 13 days. The Speculation , . COBB, from Liverpool, was ran foul of in 11e 4 c. Orleans River, and put back to repair. Tb e ' Kelly, Ettlrr, Irolll Liverpool to Savannah, W. ou shore and bilged-, on Martin's Industry, 20th January ; crew saved. Captain 'FUCKEY's Narrative of the Expedit o • !o the Congo ; in South Africa, will be published 0 ° luestiay next. HORRID MURDER OF MARY MINTING ! , Cortmert's INQUEsT.—Last night, at sever) o'clock, an quest was held at the house of Mr. Thomas King, the Kiwi, 4 Arms, at the corner or Titchfield and Union-street, Middlesex Hospital, before THOMAS Sri .EN. on the bccty of Ma!'; inting, aged 18 last November, who was murdered in to: manner already laid before our readers. The Jury calislstea of 24 of the neighbours. The room, which was very sunlit, - vvr‘s completely crammed. The evidence of the several t••it. , ' nesles was then taken, all of which was oiven in the. 130W` street Police Report of yesterday. After hearing all the evl dence, the Jury without hesitation unanimously returned 4 verdict of---" - Wilful Murder against Wilton lia:c h." HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.—TIIC Wiest- Bent Higham VOf Hounds will wet at the Roughts on Mondays, at 100)3 0 on 'Thursdays, at,d at Ouxton on Saturdays ; for the re.ona4RdeC • of the season.;—e:tc It day at 9 o'clock, if hunting wriAther• _ BIRTH On Tuesday, the 10th instant, the Lady of Cnlonelleclil of Pulliam, in Norfolk, of a daughter, On the 13th instant, at Ilis seat, DunnicAlea, Forfapsbiret in iiissntli year, George Dempster, Esq. many years Bleciry sentative in Parliament fur St. Andrew's, &e. LONDON: Printed by J. B. CARSTAI4S, of No. e 9, Grez4 Oonood-street, Queeir-square; .and 'published by %V. A• S(-RIPPS, of No. 7, South Molton-street, at "rfto ()Moe, No. 112; Strand ; where Advertisements, Ordgr't Letters, &c. ({lust-paid) must we ndldrpsscci. /,,